On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jesse Lackey wr= ote: > MPLAB and AVR studio will likely never be in the same league as the > Eclipse code editor, and Microchip and Atmel will have to spend $100s of > K a year on developer time on enhancing tools that Eclipse just has for > the taking, but I think they are making the right choice. The problem is that apparently Microchip and Atmel no longer be able to spend the time/money for their respective internal developed IDE. So Microchip is switching to Netbean (Linux, Mac OS X support along with Windows). Atmel is switching to Visual Studio shell (Microsoft technology, Windows only). > I'm curious if other ARM vendors that use Eclipse have managed to > simplify or streamline or bury the complexity somehow to make it more > microcontroller developer friendly. > The NXP's low cost LPC Expresso (from Code Red) is based on Eclipse. TI/Luminary Code Composer is based on Eclipse. Code Sourcery's IDE is also based on Eclipse. So is Tasking's. But take note IAR, Keil and Roley Associates are all not using Eclipse. IAR and Keil are probably the two leading compiler vendors for Arm based MCU (not MPU). Roley Associates' IDE is based on QT for cross-platform support. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .